Recent Trends in Business History Research: Capitalism, Democracy, and Innovation

1Walter A. Friedman is director of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School. He is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013). E-mail: wfriedman@hbs.edu